Soviet missile cruiser sails down Africa coast
A Soviet guided missile cruiser, the Kresta II, was reported steaming southward along the West African coast, potentially joining other Russian vessels near Angola. It was last seen off Mauritania and was expected to reach Conakry, Guinea, this weekend as U.S. officials monitor Soviet naval activity in the region. The Pentagon noted a broader Soviet presence off Africa with a destroyer, tankers, and a landing ship nearby, amid U.S. calls for outsiders to withdraw from Angola.
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Washington
West African
Angola
Mediterranean
Mauritania
Pentagon
Conakry
Guinea
Africa
United States
Gabon
Pointe Noir
Congo Republic
U.S
Fugitive Weather Underground member arrested in San Francisco
FBI nabbed David Sylvan Fine in a San Francisco room, facing Wisconsin charges for sabotage and murder in the University of Wisconsin bombing. Bail set at 1 million dollars as he is ordered returned to Wisconsin. An anonymous tip led to the arrest. authorities say he was underground for six years.
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San Francisco
Weather Underground
University of Wisconsin
FBI
David Sylvan Fine
Revolutionary Weather Underground
U.S
Richard Goldsmith
Fine
Wisconsin
The
U.S. Atty
S. Steele Langford
Noon market and cotton futures drift in muted gains
The noon Dow gains 1.97 as inflation signs ease and profit taking caps advances. NYSE issues outpace declines, with United Telecommunications leading activity and the composite index edging up. Cotton futures are mixed ahead of the government report, with strict low middling spot at 58.45 cents. A later column discusses no lead gasoline and catalytic converters, suggesting no lead may grow in use despite exact predictions.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Tors
United Telecommunications
NYSE
American Stock Exchange
New York Cotton Exchange
School Menu Week Header and Daily Dishes
The readable portion lists a weekly school menu with Monday to Wednesday items. Monday features Frito Pie potato salad buttered spinach lemon pudding hot roll with butter and milk. Tuesday offers Chicken fried steak mashed potatoes buttered corn stuffed celery cherry cobbler hot roll butter and milk. Wednesday shows Beef stew combination salad peaches cinnamon roll crackers butter and milk along with alternate lines noting hamburger on bun with pickles French fries gelatin and other items, and tuna croquettes with potatoes green beans ice cream and bread.
World Peace Conference comes to Palacios Texas
Steve Hayes, a YMCA worker, moved to Palacios to escape city life and helped Matagorda County win the 1976 International YMCA World Peace Conference. County residents raised over 50,000 dollars in two weeks to attract the event with 300 delegates from around the world. Mayor W C Jackson led fundraising and merchant outreach, emphasizing peace and youth.
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International Young Men’s Christian Association
YMCA
Hayes
Matagorda County
Stockholm
Sweden
Geneva
Switzerland
Palacios
First time show yields dual grand steer champion
In the Sand Hills Hereford and Quarter Horse Show, 12-year-old Mike Fuston of Panhandle captured both grand and reserve champion steers, with 247 calves entered. His champion steer originated from the herd of Dyer & Sims in Alpine. parents noted.
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Odessa
Sand Hills
Mike Fuston
Panhandle
Carson County
Denny Fuston
Dyer & Sims
Alpine
Missed Paper Delivery Alert Guidance
Notice requests readers to call the Circulation Dept at 445 5475 if the newspaper has not arrived by 5 55 p m and 6 00 p m delivery will be guaranteed.
Murder trial gag order lifted as jury selected
North Platte Nebraska AP reporters can cover the case after jury selection. Public defenders said Simants may be an eight year old moron and not responsible for acts. Six Kellie family members were shot and a woman and girl may have been sexually assaulted. The gag order had drawn national attention and an appeal to the Supreme Court was pending. Simants then pled innocent by reason of insanity on all six counts.
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North Platte
Neb
Erwin Charles Simants
Simants
Henry Kellie
Sutherland
Miles Foster
Asst
Leonard Vyhnalek
Lincoln County
Hugh Stuart
Nebraska
U.S. Supreme Court
Deaths of Rev. Fred G. Stockton in Carlsbad
Funeral services for Rev. Fred G. Stockton former Pecos resident and Nazarene pastor will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at First Church of the Nazarene in Carlsbad New Mexico. He died Wednesday in a Carlsbad hospital and will be buried at Sunset Garden Memorial Park. Stockton born February 21 1893 in Chico Texas served Texas churches before relocating to Carlsbad. He is survived by son Brant Stockton of Houston three daughters Mrs Charles Bennett of Ranier Washington Mrs Bruce Pardue of Loving New Mexico and Mrs Kenneth Potter of San Diego California one stepson Charles Bohannan of Pasadena California and a stepdaughter Jane Chrisoffer of Kansas City Missouri two sisters Edith Francis of Plainview Ida Davis of Wichita Kansas a brother John Stockton of Olathe Kansas 17 grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
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Fred Stockton
Fred G. Stockton
Pecos
Church of the Nazarene
Brant Stockton
Houston
Charles Bennett
Ranier
Wash
Bruce Pardue
Loving, N.M
Kenneth Potter
San Diego
Calif
Charles Bohannan
Pasadena
Jane Chrisofferson
Kansas City
John Stockton
Olathe
Kan
Edith Francis
Plainview
Ida Davis
Wichita, Kan
Train collision injures scores on Chicago transit line
A crowded Northwest Side Chicago Transit Authority train rear collided with a stopped train during rush hour. About 600 aboard, hundreds injured, more than 100 treated at hospitals. six seriously. Four rescued from wreckage as cold near zero temperatures framed the crash near Addison Street on the Jefferson Park branch.
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Chicago
Chicago Transit Authority
Addison Street
Jefferson Park
Wholesale prices fall while unemployment stays high in December
The Labor Department reports December wholesale prices declined four tenths of one percent, easing inflation pressure, while the jobless rate remained at 8.3 percent with 7.8 million unemployed. For 1974, unemployment averaged 8.5 percent, the peak since 1941, as inflation cooled from prior highs. Wholesale farm prices dropped 2.5 percent in December, offsetting non-food price increases.
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Washington
Labor Department
China mourns Chou En-lai as leadership deal looms
China entered a week of mourning for Premier Chou En-lai while speculation swirled over his likely successor. Teng Hsiao-ping, 71, seen as premier-in-waiting, and Wang Hung-wen, 39, a party vice chairman, were floated as possible top leaders. Chou died at 78 after a heart attack in 1974, with cancer listed as the cause. The funeral is set for Jan. 15 in Peking, with a 107 member committee headed by Mao Zedong.
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John Roderick
Associated Press
Tokyo
China
Chou Enlai
Teng Hsiaoping
Chou
Communist Party
Wang Hung-wen
Peking
Hsinhua
Mao Tse-tung
Chinese Communist Party
Tienanmen Square
People’s Daily
MTI
Great Hall of the People
Party
National People’s Congress
Three Secretaries of State in Washington's administrations
The passage notes that George Washington had three Secretaries of State during his two administrations: Thomas Jefferson served from 1780 to 1794, Edmund Randolph from 1794 to 1795, and Timothy Pickering in 1795.
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George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Edmund Randolph
Timothy Pickering
Pecos Area Mail Rates Listed for Various Counties
The Pecos notice details mailing rates by county for subscriptions in Reeves, Ward, Loving Culberson and Jeff Davis counties at $34.25 plus $1.72 tax per year, other counties and states at $40.00 plus $2 tax per year, and a servicemen and student rate at $19.04 plus $0.96 per year or term. It notes The Associated Press holds republication rights for news dispatches and implies local Pecos, Texas publishing.
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Reeves, Ward
Loving Culberson
Jeff Davis
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Pecos Enterprise
McLain
Alcoat
At&t
Ad Rich
Borden
Pet
Chrysler
Coca Cola
Dow
Eastman
el Paso NG
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Fairchild
Ford
Elec
Gen Foods
Tire
Goodrich
Great
A&p
Gulf Oil
St Ut
Hous LP
IBM
John Joh
Litton
Marathon
Marcer
Mobil Oil
Monsanto
Penn Cent
Penney
Phill Pet
RCA
Safeway
Sears
Ea Ind
Texaco
Texas
UN Carbide
Uniroyal
US Steel
Woolworth
Xerox
Minit Mart
Cedar Street
Ed Fowler
Linda and
Ken McDowell
Pami Williams
Adela Snellenberger
Nova Gutierrez
Michael A. Lutz
Tex
Steve Hayes
W.C. Jackson
Colorado River Municipal Water District Board of Directors
Board of Directors
Big Spring
Anthony Allen Daniel
Eddie Everett
C.V. Milburn
Daniel
Kermit Chamber
Kermit
Kermit Chamber of Commerce-Jaycee
Dale Christian
James Blakely
Wharton
Wink — Winkler County
Lubbock Area
Gordo
Gus Arriola
Lopez
Pecos Alcoholics Anonymous
S. Oak St
Lions Club
American Motor Inn
Amistad Lions Club
Lions den
Texas Hairdresser Association
Ben's Spanish Inn
Saragosa
Bring Records
Al-Anon
Morning Tops Club
Federation
Tops TX
10Th St
Holiday Inn
Monahans
District 8
Neta Stovall
Modern Study Club
Pecos Park
Ramada Inn
Rotary Club
Ecos
Chou En-lai
Buckner News Alliance
Cedar St. Pecos
John Pitts
Lynn Webb
Diane Osborn
Mary Shute
Ruben Baca
Emily Galindo
Carlos Nichols
Mary Carpenter
Reeves County
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